hard truths about writing
10 Hard Truths About Writing, by Lauren B Davis Discipline. Responsibility. Loneliness. Frustration. Sign me up!
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writing vs storytelling
Good story absolves mediocre writing much better than good writing absolves mediocre story. I have a lot of ambling, rambling thoughts— and even some examples– along those lines and maybe at some point I’ll...
alpha up
Liza and I have been married for 21 years now. We’re approaching half of our lives spent together. Which is a personal best in the “roommates” category for both of us. But I digress....
openers
This is the first whack at an opener from my next story/essay/reflection on lying. It’s part of a collection that is intended to be read aloud as well, so verbal flow is just as...
new friends in the same boat
So the other day, on a much-needed time out from work, I scanned r/writing and saw someone suggesting that the good folk of that subreddit band together on twitter and make a marketing/motivational/all-around-scriptional-badassery group....
makes perfect sense to me
Katya and I were driving to the store last night, and she was doing her normal radio dance: sing along for ten seconds then switch the channel to something else. She landed on some...
rejection
So my story, Driving Lessons, is now up on Amazon. But first, I did send it to a few places to see if it could pass muster. It did not. But it’s interesting to...
the inevitable “tips for writers” list
Penfold’s list of super awesome writing tips for writers and anyone else who writes: keep writing read your writing aloud and listen to it cutting something is almost always the better option, even people...
new beginnings
i’ve been futzing around with writing my whole life. A few times, I started to take it seriously. Those times were few and far between. Not anymore. I’ve thought and thought about what I...
